Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter: Former Boxer & Folk Music Icon Dead At 76

On April 20, the middleweight boxer known as ‘Hurricane’ passed away in Toronto, Canada after suffering from prostate cancer.

Rubin “Hurricane”Carter, 76, will be remembered for many things — his successful boxing career; the song written about him by Bob Dylan; and the fact that he was wrongly accused for murder in 1985 and spent 19 years in prison for it.